Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02
Tennessee Blood.



out OF brief communication Of mine,
in the Franklin Review.
I do not clearly see where "you alp
are, but | do know satisfactorily |
where am.
There, Is, as all must see, a demand
for textbook, for our public schools,
The History OF Tennessee.
Observing that several writers are
coming before our people, about this
subject, prominent among these,
Edmund Kirke, author of the van
guard Of the Revolution, that writer's
OF that class might not pre-occupy the
public mind, some OF us, here in Nash
vile tried to get before committees,
joint Resolution, authorizing the Gov
ernor to offer 500 dollars, more or less,
as reward for the manuscript OF such
History, the copyright to be vested
in the State. Money, you see well
spent, either to let our citizens have the
book at cost, or sell it at small profit,
and receive in return, that sum many
times ten repeated. But our efforts
failed.
Edmund Kirke, who ever he may
be, writes, as New Highlander, in
total ignorance of the blood and creed
Of the original settlers OF Tennessee.
am confirmed in the wisdom OF our
purpose, il possible, to pre-occupy the
minds of the children Of this State,
with the facts, as to blood and creed
OF their fathers.
The ''creeds'' is the matter OF
prime importance. The one OF Mas
sachusetts, we're Anglo-Saxon-Pu Puritan
independents, the other, Scotch Irish,
John Knox Presbyterian Covenanters.
} aTHE REAR GUARD OF THE REVOLUTION"
This is a sprightly, interesting and
instructive book about "Men and
q Times" by Edmund Kirke, too little
: known in history, in particular toe
i little known to Tennessee. say to
0 Tennesseans because it can be shown
e that the "men of these times" the van.
guard shedding first blood-Alamance
n May 16, Inland making first decla
e ration of Observation-Disclosures
II May 20, 1775-and there ''the real
4 guard" OF this book, by the blood in
their veins and creed in their hearts
IL became the first settlers OF Tennessee
is from its mountains in the east to thu
If Father of Waters in the west, founding
civilization, peculiar, and growing on
A. OF that blood and creed. A suggestion
ID for the the textbook in history for ou
1t public schools. AS this author is evi
IDENTIFY one OF many others, some @
lg whom are the notorious toadles il
Re whose mind the Anglo.Saxon-independ
le ent-P Puritan founders OF Massachusetts
are the standard of all human exec
es lences, and specimens OF the best result
I'd OF Christian civilization, will brief
it compare these two civilizations, wri
or ing my history of Tennessee, all tn
time keeping in my mind for the pre-
re ent but one item or issue, female educi
lie ton. 1t will be agreed no single itel
es con more generally affect civilzatio
he than this, involving as it does the rel
ton of the sexes to each other.
nd Parton in his admirable life of JAG
las son, equips himself for his work,
he reading, at least, going to Carrie
ng Fergus. Travelling in North and Sou
Ior Carolina to learn all he can about tt
mt blood in the veins and creed in II
at heart of not only his hero, but Il
Ca associates OF his boyhood and ear
ng manhood, and by referring to this bios
he apd creed to explain acts in private al
la public life, in peace and in war. II
'ul history inspires our confidence. Al
zee life and times OF John Sewer, &c
Robertson, men and times OF ant
10. bellum Tennessee must be write
an from this standpoint or else-as tn
RS book does-they will fail to secure IL
he confidence of all true and intelligel
pe ante-bellum Tennesseans.
he In blood the original settlers OF Ma
nv sachusetts were Anglo-Saxon. II
cir original settlers OF Tennessee we're Celt
25 Scotchmen, Welshmen (but little
re- blood and much OF climate in the nor
of Ireland), Irishmen. This is the co
- rect historic definition IN blood
49, Scotch-Irish. In creed the settlers
GO Massachusetts, were Puritans, Ind
lso pendents. In creed the settlers OF Tel
in nessee were John Knox Presbyterian
Covenanters. Since the war-under oil
Un-T Tennessee and New England scho
iy management, the school children
lp- Tennessee know ten times more abol
the Pilgrim Fathers of Massachuset
he than they do about their own Scotcl
er, Irish fathers of Tennessee.
a. G. D. ELLIOTT,